Re-checking the article, you’re correct. I’ve edited above accordingly.
I wonder if that’s the same cop who’s all buddy-buddy with Joey Gibson.
From his Wiki entry, he sounds little better than James O’Keefe
He graduated from UCLA in 2009 with a graphic design degree, but found it hard to find a job, so he had period of unemployment and worked as a photographer at a used car dealership and in various minimum wage jobs.
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In 2015, Ngo began graduate studies in political science at Portland State University (PSU), with research interests in secularism and political Islam.
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Ngo is a writer and an editor at Quillette.] In May 2017, Ngo began an outreach internship with the Center for Inquiry, a nonprofit humanist educational organization. Joseph Bernstein from BuzzFeed News states that “Ngo’s work is probably best described as media activism”, part a “new generation” of “busybody” journalists and that he engages in “participant reporting”. Max Read cites Ngo as an example of “busybody journalism” and distinguishes it from experiential journalism by its opposition to journalistic institutions and processes such as fact-checking.
Ngo first drew national attention in 2017 when he was fired from the Portland State University (PSU) student newspaper The Vanguard. His dismissal as multimedia editor was in reaction to a Breitbart News report that Ngo had tweeted on his personal account a video clip of a Muslim student on an interfaith panel stating that in some Muslim countries, the punishment for apostasy is death or banishment. While not reporting for The Vanguard at the time, his tweet paraphrased the Muslim student’s remark in a way the newspaper’s student editor considered to be “a half-truth”, and inciting a reaction. Colleen Leary, Vanguard’s editor, also disputed Ngo’s claim that the dismissal was motivated by previous campus controversies over Ngo’s work. Ngo would later write an op-ed for the National Review titled “Fired for Reporting the Truth”. He also engaged in online discussions about the incident and on the pro-Drumpf subreddit /r/The Donald he called the firing part of a “trend towards self-censorship in the name of political correctness”
He’s an opportunist who stumbled into a gig that tacitly supports the fascists. Yet another kapo pundit like Ben Shapiro who’s making money enabling, downplaying, and making excuses for the alt-right.
That’s your opinion. As I noted elsewhere, I’ve observed a solid amount of movement discipline and haven’t seen them starting fistfights despite the entryism of anarkiddies. As @fnordius describes above, they’re being a lot smarter about their tactics and don’t seem to be opposed to liberals and progressives who actively oppose fascists.
I addressed this above:
See, for example, the cop I mentioned above. But that’s to be expected. What’s been particularly shameful is that, rather than seeing this threat, a lot of self-described Libertarians are supporting the false narrative that antifa are initiating bloody assaults like Rotfront often did in the 1920s and early '30s (and like the fascists did then and now) instead of acting in self-defense. I just hope that the modern antifa doesn’t fall for that BS again.
